When I began living without money 18 months ago, the most common question people asked me was “How on earth are you going to eat?”. An understandable remark, but an insight into the burgeoning degrees of separation between the stomach and the soil.
For most of us, food comes in plastic packets from the supermarket. A friend, who runs tours of an organic farm for school children, gives much anecdotal evidence of this. One week, while pointing to a rosemary bush, he asked the kids if anyone knew what it was. After 20 seconds, one 12-year-old raised his hand and proclaimed it to be “corned beef”. Worse still, none of the others laughed.
An explosion on the BP operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed eleven crew members on April 20, 2010m sparking the greatest environmental disaster in United States history. In combination with the Texas City Refinery Explosion and the Prudohoe Bay Oil Spill, this marks the third serious incident involving BP in the United States in the last five years. Current estimates put the amount of oil being discharged from the broken well at above 1,050,000 US gallons per day! There are over 400 different species of animals living in the area affected by the spill.
Initially conceived by Steve Wozniak (a.k.a. “Woz”) as a build-it-yourself kit computer, Apple I was the precursor to the immensely popular Apple II. Along with friend Steve Jobs, Wozniak sold 50 of the units to a shop in Mountain View, Calif. The suggested retail price: $666.
Make fun of me all you want, I think this treasure map feature is pretty damn slick. You can choose from other styles but they aren’t as cool as a treasure map.
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A cheating wife, a snooping husband and a cellphone bill has led to a $600,000 lawsuit being launched against telecommunications giant Rogers Wireless Inc.
Gabriella Nagy, 35, of Toronto is suing Rogers for invasion of privacy and breach of contract after her husband discovered her extramarital affair through her cellphone bill in June 2007.
People don’t read the small print these days. True story: This year, a software retailer in the UK added a clause to its standard contract asking each online buyer for rights to his or her immortal soul. Thousands clicked to accept the deal.
The firm, GameStation, didn’t know what to do with all these souls, so eventually wrote emails transferring the rights back to their original owners. (Surely the obvious thing to do would have been to sell them to the devil? I understand he’s keen on that sort of thing.)
